URBAN PLANET will reflect on the urgency to affect change in urbanization practices when confronted with the context of unviable “territorial ecologies,” defined as spheres of sustainable interaction between humans and their environment. The guest speakers will shape an explicit understanding of different urban contexts examined via the lens of ecological viability and speculate open-ended alternative urban futures. . . . We aim to reveal the inner workings of emerging urban and demonstrate the inevitability of this discussion in our overpopulated and URBAN PLANET.

mitchell JOACHIM: New York City is disposing of 38,000 tons of waste per day. Most of this discarded material ended up in Fresh Kills landfill before it closed. The Rapid Re(f)use project supposes an extended New York reconstituted from its own landfill material. Our concept remakes the city by utilizing the trash at Fresh Kills.